c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Wisdom begins in wonder." — Socrates
"Marriage is the tomb of love." — Giacomo Casanova
"When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt." — Hope Davis
"If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!" — Marilyn Monroe
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." — Thomas Hardy
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response." — Arthur M. Schlesinger
"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children." — Bruce Springsteen
"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets." — Maynard James Keenan
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." — Jim Rohn
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." — John F. Kennedy
"We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are." — Abu Bakar Bashir
"I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then." — Sharon Stone
"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to." — Greg Anderson
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." — John F. Kennedy
"I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object." — Tori Amos
"Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again." — Marsilio Ficino
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality." — Florence Nightingale
"There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk." — John Redwood
"Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies." — Berenice Bejo
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness." — William E. Gladstone
"We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them." — Barbara Boxer
"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." — Tecumseh
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." — Langston Hughes
"I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid." — Kelly Lynch
"Years ago women of my size were considered royalty." — Camryn Manheim
"The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners." — Tom Kristensen
"We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support." — George Washington
"In youth we learn in age we understand." — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence." — John Fiske
"And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion." — Amy Irving
"Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player." — Nerlens Noel
"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." — Vine Deloria, Jr.
"The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened." — Richard J. Daley
"If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life." — Tim Tebow
"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth." — Kenichi Fukui
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." — Thomas Jefferson
"Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all." — Jason Mraz
"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property." — James Madison
"Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom." — Hillary Clinton
"The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged." — Major Owens
"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me." — Roy Lichtenstein
"I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'" — Elayne Boosler
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'." — Erma Bombeck
"Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change." — Doug E. Fresh
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." — Hannah More
"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn." — Steve Jobs
"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." — John Lennon
"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth." — Michael Kinsley
"Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened." — William Henry Hudson
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience." — John Stuart Mill
"I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes." — Whitney Cummings
"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other." — Thor Heyerdahl
"But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history." — Thomas Lynch
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you." — John Cusack
"There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons." — Fred Saberhagen
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." — Virginia Woolf
"Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'" — Rick Perry
"I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet." — Marcia Cross
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows." — Susan B. Anthony
"It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow." — Ray Dalio
"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned." — Halle Berry
"I love seeing my family." — Mia Wasikowska
"By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal." — George Tenet
"Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist." — Masaharu Morimoto
"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer." — William Ames
"Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them." — Heidi Klum
"Nothing amazes me anymore." — David Beckham
"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac." — Steve Jobs
"I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God." — Ben Stein
"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so." — Ernestine Rose
"Education is the transmission of civilization." — Will Durant
"Politics is a people business. I like people." — Laura Bush
"Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind." — Mary Baker Eddy
"The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards." — Michelle Bachelet
"All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." — Honore de Balzac
"The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time." — Barbara Bush
"I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries." — Alex Ferguson
"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies." — Joseph Barbera
"Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them." — Gregory Harrison
"When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world." — Victor Ortiz
"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught." — George Savile
"People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct." — Phillip Noyce
"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug." — Max Frisch
"Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?" — Daisaku Ikeda
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." — Rita Mae Brown
"Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent." — Natan Sharansky
"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?" — Jon Bon Jovi
"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character." — Clarence Day
"I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst." — Jamie Bell
"If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others." — Plato
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." — Emile Zola
"The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits." — Mike Huckabee
"Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding." — Shaun White
"Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits." — Casey Stengel
"I don't follow politics much." — Vivienne Westwood
"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it." — Robert Motherwell
"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet." — Adrienne Rich
"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one." — Fred G. Gosman
"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go." — Natalie Goldberg
"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway." — Peter McWilliams
"If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports." — Edward G. Rendell
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been." — Robert H. Schuller
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." — Karl Marx
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." — Lewis Carroll
"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things." — Robert Plant
"My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like." — Candace Bushnell
"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them." — Henry Norris Russell
"Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times." — Sienna Miller
"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars." — Michael Caine
"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God." — Story Musgrave
"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them." — Arthur Erickson
"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened." — Archie Shepp
"Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks." — Ruth Westheimer
"Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers." — Wyclef Jean
"The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time." — Rick Perry
"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint." — Robert Delaunay
"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot." — Manuel Puig
"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented." — Lech Walesa
"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house." — Anthony Anderson
"We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work." — Dennis Kucinich
"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership." — Chris Patten
"You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's." — Adam Oates
"In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force." — Koichi Tanaka
"I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies." — Sam Mendes
"He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise." — Quintus Ennius
"People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy." — Wiz Khalifa
"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set." — John Malkovich
"What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience." — Simon Mainwaring
"It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations." — Huston Smith
"Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get." — Kinky Friedman
"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going." — Phyllis Diller
"Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'" — Barry McGuire
"Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time." — Ani DiFranco
"We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." — Howard Thurman
"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!" — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." — Vaclav Havel
"I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California." — Meg Whitman
"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure." — Laurence J. Peter
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." — Desmond Tutu
"When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes." — Ann Coulter
"Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen." — David Cameron
"I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done." — Rachel Bilson
"When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along." — Elliott Erwitt
"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations." — Lakhdar Brahimi
"Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject." — Carl Hiaasen
"It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality." — Alan Dershowitz
"I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods." — David Soul
"So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship." — George J. Mitchell
"But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated." — Roger Sessions
"I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting." — Brendan Fraser
"The art of communication is the language of leadership." — James Humes
"A man's kiss is his signature." — Mae West
"The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength." — Ariel Sharon
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death." — Leonardo da Vinci
"President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration." — Paul Ryan
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." — Lucille Ball
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on." — Barack Obama
"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most." — Al Capp
"I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams." — Joel Kinnaman
"I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States." — Harold Bloom
"When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful." — Adam Lambert
"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure." — Simon Hoggart
"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery." — Arthur Machen
"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know." — Leslie Fiedler
"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate." — Mary Cheney
"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence." — Arsene Wenger
"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl." — Stephen Leacock
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated." — Lou Holtz
"You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it." — Chris Kyle
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination." — Earl Nightingale
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature." — Edward Gibbon
"I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams." — Jayma Mays
"You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect." — Mariska Hargitay
"I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare." — John Mayer
"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'" — Johnny Carson
"The best movies are simple." — Shia LaBeouf
"A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination." — David Horowitz
"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance." — Stephen Fry
"I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens." — Russell Simmons
"I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on." — Nina Dobrev
"The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy." — Karen Hughes
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres." — Pythagoras
"When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race." — Jeff Gordon
"I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor." — Louis C. K.
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." — Aristotle
"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government." — Roger Wicker
"The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought." — Ina Garten
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." — Albert Einstein
"No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers." — Mike Huckabee
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." — Alan Watts
"Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them." — Meg Ryan
"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether." — Lena Dunham
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." — Duke Ellington
"But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?" — Alan Vega
"When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!" — Brooke Burke
"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way." — Robert Kiyosaki
"American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet." — Diane Wakoski
"Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too." — Annie Lennox
"Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that." — Cindy Margolis
"But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy." — John le Carre
"Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor." — George Jean Nathan
"I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people." — Ashley Benson
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." — Albert Einstein
"Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself." — Sydney Madwed
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future." — Lord Acton
"My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day." — Santigold
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." — Alice Duer Miller
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition." — Edward Gibbon
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." — Mark Twain
"I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut." — Bryan Adams
"But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place." — Dan Rather
"Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't." — Harvey Fierstein
"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true." — Gwyneth Paltrow
"Disarmament requires trust." — Gustav Heinemann
"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us." — Tupac Shakur
"I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside." — Whitney Houston
"My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly." — Sherri Shepherd
"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again." — Paul Kagame
"The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination." — Ai Weiwei
"My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I." — David Cassidy
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit." — Ansel Adams
"If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were." — Denise Mina
"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." — Harry S. Truman
"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal." — Victor Hugo
"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision." — Nerlens Noel
"The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world." — James Buchan
"Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know." — Emmett Kelly
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all." — Doug Coupland
"God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away." — George A. Smith
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body." — Devon Aoki
"This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future." — Mark Kennedy
"I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it." — Sidney Poitier
"The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational." — Cheryl James
"If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage." — George Carey
"If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that." — Nick Clegg
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self." — Martin Luther
"The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord." — Jon Meacham
"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful." — Paul Simon
"I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing." — Harry Melling
"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price." — Alex Chiu
"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." — Benjamin Franklin
"At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends." — Anna Kournikova
"My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish." — Flip Wilson
"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong." — Abraham Lincoln
"I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right." — Halle Berry
"There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility." — Robert M. Gates
"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful." — Drew Carey
"The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom." — Scott Walker
"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." — Havelock Ellis
"'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate." — Eddie Van Halen
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity." — Lucy Powell
"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him." — Jesse Helms
"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth." — June Jordan
"Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater." — Anne Archer
"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it." — A. N. Wilson
"I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life." — Ashlee Simpson
"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out." — Theodore Bikel
"Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity." — Stanislav Grof
"The most dangerous food is wedding cake." — James Thurber
"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach." — Kristen Bell
"I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination." — Eric Bana
"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible." — Amanda Seyfried
"We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest." — David Neeleman
"Only fools are positive." — Moe Howard
"When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation." — William J. Clinton
"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society." — Henrik Ibsen
"Respect is what we owe love, what we give." — Philip James Bailey
"I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger." — Molly Ringwald
"When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City." — Steve Burns
"Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president." — Mitt Romney
"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point." — Marilyn Manson
"With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on." — Sonny Bono
"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey." — Ouida
"The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work." — Fareed Zakaria
"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind." — George W. Bush
"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order." — William E. Gladstone
"I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong." — Brad Pitt
"It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can." — R. Lee Ermey
"In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina." — Jim Hunt
"I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry." — Amber Tamblyn
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." — Bill Vaughan
"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!" — Mitch Hedberg
"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration." — William P. Young
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." — Theodore Roosevelt
"There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves." — Mehmet Oz
"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence." — William Peter Blatty
"There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid." — John Fowles
"I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'" — Daniel Craig
"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy." — John Salazar
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." — Bob Marley
"I've choreographed all of my movies." — Jackie Chan
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!" — Alexander Pope
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely." — Greta Scacchi
"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride." — Ron Taffel
"The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life." — Evangeline Lilly
"The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith." — Jeffrey Kluger
"I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me." — Joel Edgerton
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." — Ayn Rand
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity." — George Bernard Shaw
"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense." — Elia Kazan
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." — Rita Rudner